The event will commemorate the centenary of the birth of Eliska Kleinova (1912-1999), which falls on 27 February. She was the sister of the composer and pianist Gideon Klein, who played such a seminal role in Terezin’s cultural life. Professor Kleinova, herself a Terezin prisoner and Auschwitz survivor, became a greatly respected Prague-based music pedagogue. A concert on the centenary day will include Gideon’s Piano Sonata, written in Terezin, and dedicated to his sister.

Zdenka Fantlova, Terezin survivor and author of the biographical The Tin Ring will be talking about the cultural life of Terezin, and her own personal memories of Gideon and Eliska. Other conference events include the UK premiere of the feature length documentary Defiant Requiem.

The impetus for the hub and conference is being hosted by the Postgraduate Studies & Research Centre and steered by Dr. David Fligg, Principal Lecturer in Classical Music. His research specialism is the life and work Gideon Klein. David, whose book A Concise Guide to Orchestral Music was published in the USA last year, is on the committee of the International Centre for Suppressed Music. He has interviewed a number of Terezin survivors who knew Gideon, and from delving into archival material in the Czech Republic, has discovered a wealth of new material about the composer and his family.
 

Michael Beckerman (New York University) will be one of our distinguished keynote speakers at the Conference in February 2012.

Michael Beckerman is professor of music and chair of the Music Department at New York University. He has written several books on Czech topics, including, Dvorak and His World (Princeton University Press, 1993), Janacek as Theorist (Pendragon Press, 1994), New Worlds of Dvorak (Norton, 2003), Janacek and His World (Princeton, 2003) and Martinu’s Mysterious Accident (Pendragon, 2007). He is at present working on a book and documentary about Gideon Klein.

He writes frequently for the New York Times and has appeared numerous times on Live from Lincoln Center. A recipient of the Janacek Medal from the Czech Ministry of Culture, he is a laureate of the Czech Music Council. He has also received the ASCAP Deems Taylor Award several times for his work on Dvorak.

Michael is also Director of Research for the OREL Foundation, an organization devoted to twentieth-century composers whose music was banned during the years of Nazi oppression in Europe: nineteen men and one woman - Vitezslava Kapralova.

Biography from www.kapralova.org

Murry Sidlin will be one of our distinguished keynote speakers at the Conference in February 2012. Maestro Sidlin will also be conducting a performance of Beethoven’s Choral Symphony in Leeds on Wednesday 29th February.

Murry Sidlin is a conductor with a unique perspective of how music serves American life and is credited with having one of the most diverse musical careers in the country today. After eight years as the Oregon Symphony’s resident conductor - during which time he conducted hundreds of classical concerts, tours, special events, concerts for young people, pops, and innovative concerts designed to create greater audience engagement - he became the dean of the School of Music at The Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C., a position he held for eight years.

He is the founder and president of The Defiant Requiem Foundation which sponsors the Defiant Requiem concerts and projects including the documentary film currently in production, Defiant Requiem: Verdi at Terezin, The Rafael Schächter Institute of Arts and Humanities at Terezin, Holocaust education projects that include a website with high school lesson plans, and the continuation of live performances of Defiant Requiem. In 2011 Defiant Requiem will also be presented in Tulsa, Oklahoma and in Minnesota.

Mr. Sidlin served as music director of the New Haven Symphony for 12 years. For eight of those seasons, he was also music director of the Long Beach Symphony in California. He has also served as music director of the Tulsa Philharmonic, Connecticut Ballet, and was principal guest conductor of the Gavleborg Orkester of Sweden. He had a long association with the San Diego Symphony, having conducted more than 300 traditional, classical, and innovative concerts. For 12 years he was the music director of the summer Cascade Festival of Music in Bend, Oregon.

In addition to the number of distinguished music directorships Mr. Sidlin has held, he has also appeared as guest conductor around the world, including recent appearances with the St. Louis Symphony; the major orchestras of San Francisco, Pittsburgh, Minnesota, Atlanta, Colorado, Utah, Florida, Jerusalem; the George Enescu Philharmonic of Bucharest; Czech National Symphony; MVD Orchestra of Budapest; Iceland Symphony; and major orchestras of Madrid, I Solisti Veneti, Honolulu, Seattle, Monte Carlo, Vancouver, Victoria, and Edmonton and Quebec; in addition to the Boston Pops, San Antonio Symphony and Opera, Houston Symphony, and repeated performances with the Lindberg Orchestra of Holland. He gave several performances of Leonard Bernstein’s MASS with the Lithuanian National Orchestra on tour in Germany and Slovenia and at the Vilnius Festival as the Eastern European premier of this work. He began his career as assistant conductor of the Baltimore Symphony under Sergiu Comissiona and served for four seasons as the resident conductor of the National Symphony Orchestra, appointed by Antal Dorati.

He created the nationally famous Nerve Endings series in Portland, Oregon. This series features innovative concerts designed to attract and engage new audiences and expand the traditional role of the symphony orchestra. Each program was written, conducted, and designed by Mr. Sidlin and launched via the Knight Foundation of Miami’s “Magic of Music” initiative. Nerve Endings attracted hundreds of new subscribers each season. Among the most popular of the more than 25 creative programs are: Sigmund Freud and the Dreams of Gustav Mahler; From Lenny to Maestro; The Anatomy of the 9th; Aaron Copland’s America; Russian David, Soviet Goliath (Shostakovich vs. Stalin); Shadows and Voices, The Last Days of Tchaikovsky; and Defiant Requiem: Verdi at Terezin.

In Spring of 2002, Mr. Sidlin presented his first performance of Defiant Requiem: Verdi at Terezin, in Portland, Oregon. Since that premiere he has led ten performances of Defiant Requiem, including three on the grounds of the Terezin Concentration Camp in May 2006, May 2009, and in June 2009. The June 2009 performance served as the conclusion to the International Holocaust Conference attended by nearly 700 delegates from 47 nations. On May 9, 2010, Defiant Requiem was presented to an audience of 5,000 people in Budapest, Hungary and televised live over Danube Television throughout Eastern Europe and Israel. Most recently Defiant Requiem was presented at The Kennedy Center, Washington D.C. on October 6, 2010.

Maestro Sidlin will make his 17th consecutive appearance conducting the National Symphony at the annual New Year’s Eve gala at the Kennedy Center in 2010. He was the first conductor to raise a baton in the refurbished Kennedy Opera House on November 19, 2003 when he conducted excerpts from Leonard Bernstein’s MASS, the composition that opened the Opera House in 1971.

The summer of 2010 marked Mr. Sidlin’s 32nd year at the Aspen Music Festival, where he served as the resident artist/teacher and associate director of conducting studies. With conductor David Zinman, Mr. Sidlin developed the American Academy of Conducting at Aspen 11 years ago.

In 1997 Mr. Sidlin, in collaboration with Aaron Copland, re-orchestrated, conducted and recorded Copland’s only full-length opera, The Tender Land in a new chamber ensemble version which has given the opera new life. He later culled a chamber ensemble suite from the opera to serve as a companion work to Copland’s original chamber version of Appalachian Spring. He has performed the opera more than 200 times and recorded the opera and the suite from the opera which he also arranged; he also has recorded Piazzola’s Tango Opera Maria de Buenos Aires, all for KOCH International with the Third Angle New Music Ensemble. Among his principal teachers were the legendary pedagogues Leon Barzin and Sergiu Celibidache.

Mr. Sidlin was appointed by Presidents Ford and Carter to serve on the White House Commission of Presidential Scholars, and won national recognition for his television series, Music Is..., a ten-part series about music for children which was seen over the PBS network for five years. In 1997 he was recognized as Educator of the Year by the National Association of Independent Schools of Music. He has been featured several times on NBC’s The Today Show, ABC’s Good Morning America and CBS’s Sunday Morning as conducting teacher and teaching conductor. He lectures extensively throughout the country on the future of the arts in America and the education of the musician in the 21s century. In June 2011 Mr. Sidlin will receive the Distinguished Alumnus Award from his Alma Mater, Johns Hopkins University-Peabody Conservatory of Music.

www.murrysidlin.com

Delegate Rates

Period: November 1 2011 onwards

Two-day delegate prices
£150 +VAT

One-day delegate prices
£100 +VAT

Concessions

Senior Citizens
£50 two-day pass access pass (all events), £25 one day all access pass (all events)

Students (non LCoM)
£15 (keynote, performances, papers, film)

LCoM students
Free


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Accommodation

Leeds College of Music is pleased to offer its delegates the following exclusive rate at premier Leeds hotel The Queens:

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To take advantage of this deal please call 0845 074 0060 and quote ‘Leeds College of Music’. Please note that this offer is only available until 14th January 2012.

Leeds College of Music invites corporate sponsorship at the following levels:

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Gold Conference Sponsor
£2,500 - £3,999

Silver Conference Sponsor
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Bronze Conference Sponsor
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Each level of sponsorship comes with a commensurate package of benefits which at Platinum level includes:

• Acknowledgement as sponsor on supporter’s and conference pages of website from date of sponsorship to September 2012 (13,000 monthly hits)

• A full page company profile/advert in the conference brochure as well as branding on sponsors’ page

• Logo and acknowledgement of support projected onto on-stage backdrop before keynotes on both days of the conference (26th and 27th February 2012)

• Opportunity to speak at beginning of VIP reception held at The Queens Hotel Leeds

• Opportunity to show a promotional film of up to two minutes duration at beginning of each keynote both days of the conference

Leeds College of Music also invites sponsorship of the following conference events

Hospitality Sponsor - Cost: £4,500
Details: An entire weekend’s sponsor of the event’s kosher catering

Keynote Sponsor: Murry Sidlin - Cost: £3,500
Details: Internationally celebrated conductor appearing on Sunday 26th February, 2012

Keynote Sponsor: Michael Beckerman - Cost: £3,500
Details: Specialist in Czech Music (University of New York) appearing on Monday 27th February, 2012

Recital Sponsor - Cost: £850
Details: A recital by internationally celebrated pianist Jakob Fichert to include Mozart, Chopin and Klein

Individual Lecture Sponsors - £500
Details: There will be four individual paper sessions across the conference with details of each to be posted on the LCM website in coming weeks

Advertising in Conference Booklet

Full Page: £600 Plus VAT
Half Page: £350 Plus VAT
Quarter page: £250 Plus VAT

Contact

For further information on any of the above please contact Matt Freeman, Fundraising and Alumni Relations Manager on:

T: 0113 222 3457
E: m.freeman@lcm.ac.uk

 

A number of events during the conference are open to members of the public:

Talk: Zdenka Fantlova, The Tin Ring
Sunday 26 February 2012, 1.00pm
The Venue, Leeds College of Music
Tickets: £5* for non-delegates
*20% discount for Friends

Terezin survivor and author of The Tin Ring, Zdenka Fantlova will be talking about the cultural life of Terezin and her own personal memories of composer Gideon Klein and his sister Eliska Kleinova.

Recital: Jakob Fichert
Monday 27 February 2012, 1.05pm
The Venue, Leeds College of Music
Tickets: £5* for non-delegates
*20% discount for Friends

Jakob Fichert is a sought after performer playing solo and chamber recitals in the UK, Germany, Italy, Hungary and other European countries. Programme to include works by Klein, Mozart, Berg and Chopin.

Booking: 0113 222 3434

   

   











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